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June 2022 BSPP ‘Plant Doctor’ Quiz Now Live – Try your hand at 10 questions on plant pathology symptoms

25th June 2022

Alteration of Plant Species Mixtures by Virus Infection: Managed Pastures, the Forgotten Dimension – a Plant Pathology highlight.

22nd June 2022

BSPP Board Member Nominations Deadline Extended – We are seeking nominations for a new board member -Programme Secretary

20th June 2022

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BSPP2022 – Microbial lifestyles: from symbionts to pathogens

5th September 2022 - 7th September 2022

The Role of Plant Agricultural Practices on Development of Antimicrobial Resistant Fungi Affecting Human Health: A Workshop Series

27th June 2022 at 10:00 am - 2:00 pm UTC-5

New CONNECTIONS: plant pathology, entomology and the road ahead

28th June 2022 at 8:00 am - 30th June 2022 at 5:00 pm UTC+0

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These are brief instructions to students who’ve received Undergraduate Vacation Bursaries and MSc. Bursaries on the format of a short report for BSPP News. It will help us greatly if you follow these instructions carefully. 

Target audience

Your target audience is readers of BSPP News, i.e. the membership of BSPP. You can assume that readers have good general knowledge of plant pathology and of biology in general, but not that they have specific knowledge of the specific area of your research project. 

What should the report be about?

The report should be written as one piece of continuous text. It should not be subdivided into ‘Introduction’, ‘Methods’, ‘Results’, ‘Discussion’ and ‘Conclusions’ (etc). Think of it more as an exercise in scientific journalism (though aimed at a fairly specialist audience) than a formal scientific report in the manner of a practical class write-up. Try to write it so that a knowledgeable reader can understand what you were doing and why without undue effort.

The report should ideally blend what the science was about with what you got out of it personally. There is no absolute list of points that must (or mustn’t be made) so the following should be regarded just as suggestions. Imagination and originality are more than welcome, in writing your report as much as in your science!

  • What does the supervisor’s lab do and how did your project fit into the general area of work? (That’s like an ‘Introduction’, but don’t call it that!)
  • What did you do? (That’s like a ‘Methods’ section, but…)
  • What did you find? (‘Results’…?) What problems were there and how did you overcome them (if you did manage to overcome them…?)
  • What are the implications, either for your supervisor’s research programme or for the relevant area of science in general (‘Discussion’/’Conclusion’…?)
  • How has this period of research work affected your career – in general? or as a plant pathologist? How do you think you benefitted from it (if you did…?)

So that makes 5 short paragraphs, but there’s absolutely no need at all to stick to this format.

Please don’t include tables or long lists of numerical results unless there’s a very good reason for doing so. Figures are much better for the reader (see below).

At some point, please include your supervisor’s name, his/her university/institute/company and the name of your university or college. 

Format

Please send your report by e-mail to bsppnews@bspp.org.uk in MS Word or RTF format.

Pictures

…are very welcome. Please send images in JPEG, TIFF or bitmap format, at least 300 dots per inch resolution minimum. Please check the size of the file before sending it. A file or a set of files larger than 2 MB in total must be sent on a CD, not by e-mail. Please include a short description of the picture(s). 

Deadline

In general, deadlines are the 2nd Friday of January, May and September, for the spring, summer and autumn issues of BSPP News (to be distributed in February, June and October respectively). 

Citation

BSPP News is a private newsletter, not a publication. If someone wishes to refer to your report in BSPP News, they should contact you, either personally or through me as the editor of BSPP News, for permission to cite your report as a personal communication.

New Disease Report

Latest Publications in Plant Pathology

Is virulence phenotype evolution driven exclusively by Lr gene deployment in French Puccinia triticina populations?

Monitoring of Peronospora destructor oospores from field samples using realtime PCR

Ongoing evolution of Beet necrotic yellow vein virus towards Rz1resistance breaking in Europe

Latest Publications in Molecular Plant Pathology

Hierarchical regulation of Burkholderia glumae type III secretion system by GluR response regulator and Lon protease

Knockout of SlTOM1 and SlTOM3 results in differential resistance to tobamovirus in tomato

A novel maize microRNA negatively regulates resistance to Fusarium verticillioides

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24th June 2022

Plant disease and regenerative agriculture.

How can plant viruses impact pastures?

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